About The Word Truth
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Truth
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What's The Definition Of Truth?
[n] the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"
[n] a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is the he didn't want to do it" [n] a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it" [n] United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) [n] conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" Synonyms | Synonyms for Truth: accuracy | Sojourner Truth | the true | true statement | verity Related Terms | Find terms related to Truth: See Also | abolitionist | actuality | emancipationist | exactitude | exactness | fact | feminist | fidelity | gospel | gospel truth | home truth | libber | quality | statement | tautology | truism | verity | women's liberationist | women's rightist Truth In Webster's Dictionary \Truth\, n.; pl. {Truths}. [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe,
AS. tre['o]w?. See {True}; cf. {Troth}, {Betroth}.]
1. The quality or being true; as:
(a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with
that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence
with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the
like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of
the ironwork. --Mortimer.
(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth, But
whispering tongues can poison truth.
--Coleridge.
(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from
falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appear That
malice bears down truth. --Shak.
2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or
subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of
things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.
--Zech. viii.
16.
I long to know the truth here of at large. --Shak.
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a
legitimate deduction from all the facts which are
truly material. --Coleridge.
3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or
proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the
like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. --2
Cor. vii. 14.
4. Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. --John i. 17.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
--John xvii.
17.
{In truth}, in reality; in fact.
{Of a truth}, in reality; certainly.
{To do truth}, to practice what God commands.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light. --John iii.
21.
\Truth\, v. t. To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. --Ford. |
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